Comments on: Unattended upgrades on a Ubuntu Hardy server

By: Paweł Dobrosielski

Paweł Dobrosielski — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:16:17 +0000

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By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:35:48 +0000

@Dave: Nope. Canonical has simply provided a partial front-end to unattended-upgrades. The only allow you to install security updates automatically though, so if you want to have ordinary updates installed too, you’ll have to edit the file by hand.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:38:31 +0000

Dave, they are one and the same.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:26:01 +0000

I notice that 8.10 has an option in the alternate CD to “install security updatess automatically”.

How does that differ from unattended-upgrades? Is either one more flexible than the other?

By: LeonB

LeonB — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:55:47 +0000

The script that needs to be run is /etc/cron.daily/apt. You can move the file to /etc/cron.d and specifiy a time with the command crontab -e (as root) or you can edit “/etc/crontab” and adjust the time of the “daily” routine.

The server will not automatically reboot. You have to do that manually or wait for Canonical to come up with a solution.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:15:54 +0000

How do you specify a time to check for updates?

Also will the server automatically reboot if it needs to?

By: LeonB

LeonB — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:48:55 +0000

I believe automatic updating is now even the default on Intrepid Ibex server.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:40:48 +0000

Very helpful!

Everyone recommends not doing this, but I want the convenience.

Thank you.